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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Anton wrote:

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> Faux_Pseudo:
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>> It is begening to sound like what you need isn't an editor but a
>> formating language.  Have you looked at LaTex?  Do you have a sample
>> page we can see to get an idea of exactly what you are trying to do?
>
>  No, LaTex doesn't produce ASCII-craft (preformartted text)...
troff/groff/nroff and/or friends format man pages for display on ascii 
(and other) terminals and printing.

I think (la)tex can be told that the printer can only handle fixed width 
fonts, including the spacing,

Another thought is to markup with html, use a text browser like lynx to 
format and print (to a printer or file).

   3ch